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BTEB ex-chairman’s wife gets bail in certificate forgery case

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Published: 19:27, 14 May 2024

BTEB ex-chairman’s wife gets bail in certificate forgery case

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A court here on Tuesday (14 May) allowed bail to Sehela Parveen, 54, wife of Ali Akbar Khan, former chairman of Bangladesh Technical Education Board (BTEB), in a case lodged over forging and selling certificates.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sultan Sohagh Uddin passed the order this afternoon.

Sehela was arrested by Detective Branch (DB) of police on April 21 and was placed on two-day remand on that day as law enforcing agency found her involvement with a forge certificate making gang. Her involvement with the gang was found after the arrest and grilling of BTEB system analyst ATM Shamsuzzaman.

According to the DB sources, Sehela was involved in the gang that made fake certificates, marksheets, registration and admission cards of the BTEB. The gang is believed to be behind forging couple of thousand certificates.

Ali Akbar Khan was made OSD (officer on special duty) after the incident and was quizzed by the DB officials as well.

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